''Coast to Coast'' is a 1980 American

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film starring

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and

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, directed by

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. The screenplay was written by Stanley Weiser. The original score was composed by

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. The film was shot in

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. It was Blake's first film in six years and first since his popular TV series, ''

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'' left the airwaves.

Plot

Madie Levrington is a wealthy woman who is also neurotic. She was committed to a New York mental institution by her husband, Benjamin, in order to keep her from divorcing him and taking his money. She manages to escape and, in the process, hitches a ride on a livestock truck. The truck is driven by Charles Callahan. Before realizing she is on his truck, he hears over his

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about her escape and a substantial reward for her return. This gets his attention as he is so in debt that he has a repo man after him to repossess his truck. Behind her back, he meets up with people who are out to get Madie, and gets part of the reward money from the woman who leads them. At the same time, he is also slowly falling in love with her. He even teaches her to drive the truck (frantically, after he was hit in the crotch and sent flying by a

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). Eventually she finds the money he was given and she wonders how he got it. He then reluctantly explains how, trying to explain that he took it unwillingly. She doesn't believe him and ends up getting in the truck and driving off without him. He winds up hitching a ride on the back of a motorcycle with an older man. When they finally find the truck, he is forced to get off the bike and jump onto the back of the truck while both are still moving, thus putting him in her shoes at the beginning. Madie drives the truck all the way back home to her husband, who is having a party in the backyard. Despite his pleas for her to stop the truck and that "everything will be just fine", in probably the most memorable scene in the film, she proceeds to wreak havoc on the party by running over everything in her way, and finally put the coup de grace on it by driving the truck through the house until it won't go any further. After getting out of the truck, Benjamin tries to choke her to death, but Callahan jumps out of the trailer and tackles him to the canvas. Then she fingers him as the driver of the truck, and she and Callahan get away, but not before running one more time into the repo man, at which point he simply concedes the truck to him.

Cast

as Madie Levrington *

as Charles Callahan *

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as Benjamin Levrington * Michael Lerner as Dr. Frederick Froll *

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as Sam Klinger *

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as Jules *

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as Orderly *

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as Billy Ray * Darwin Joston as Drunken Trucker *

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as Gregory * Cassandra Peterson as Dinner Party Guest * Karen Montgomery as Dinner Party Guest * Vicki Frederick as Golfer *

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as Policeman

Awards and nominations

* 1st Golden Raspberry Award :Nominated: Worst Actor (

)

References

External links

* * * {{Joseph Sargent 1980 films 1980 comedy-drama films 1980 romantic comedy films Paramount Pictures films 1980s adventure films 1980s road movies American road movies Trucker films Films directed by Joseph Sargent Films scored by Charles Bernstein American romantic comedy-drama films 1980s English-language films 1980s American films